FFF Results Post #364 -- Dream Collections
On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Collections You'd Love To See Published Containing Out Of Print Comics Or Comics-Related Material." This is how they responded.

1. The Complete Scribbly by Sheldon Mayer
2. Wired World by Phil Bond
3. Johnny Craig EC Artist's Edition
4. A book of cartoonist's artwork and comics from when they were kids/amateurs
5. The Complete Mister Oswald by Russell Johnson, with photos of his store, employees, etc.

1. The Best of J.R. Williams's "Out Our Way" (designed by David Collier)
2. The Best of Gluyas Williams's panel strips (designed by Chris Ware)
3. The complete pre-Popeye "Thimble Theater" by E.C. Segar (designed by Kevin Huizenga)
4. The Complete "Dunc 'n' Loo" by John Stanley (designed by Seth -- also, really, the completion of "13 Going on 18" and the rest of the John Stanley Library).
5. The Complete "Maw Green" by Harold Gray (designed by Chester Brown)

1. The Collected Tom Heintjes columns from the Kitchen Sink The Spirit reprints
2. A Jim Woodring Artist Edition (I once saw the original for the cover of Jim vol.1 and wish I could stare at anything like it again)
3. Ann Nocenti's Daredevil Run (either a b+w newsprint or a glossy oversized multi-volume)
4. The Complete Jim Steranko comics stories.
5. The Complete Don Martin.

1. Big Numbers, containing the published issues + all extant artwork by either artist, surviving scripts/notes/outlines from Moore, relevant portions of the Groth-Moore interview, and Eddie Campbell's illustrated post mortem from How To Be An Artist.
2. The Complete Wildwood, by Dan Wright and Tom Spurgeon
3. The Disney Strips of Al Taliafero, including his best Donald Duck & Silly Symphonies work.
4. The Complete Trump, by Kurtzman & Company
5. The Gospels of Mark and Matthew by Chester Brown

1. The Complete Works of Jaxon (Jack Jackson)
2. The Complete Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt
3. Essential Master of Kung-Fu (Marvel)
4. The Complete Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot
5. A black and white omnibus of the entirety of Charlton's war comics output (or a series of Essentials-like collections of 'em)

There's a few more I didn't include, like TRUMP, because there' allegedly a collection coming, and 1963, because that seems impossible (and the issues are readily available), but man, it reminds me what a beautiful age we live in when there's multiple hardcover volumes of KAMANDI and FLEX MENTALLO and HUMBUG and BARNABY and all sorts of other books that seemed very unlikely only ten years or so ago....

1. The early 20th century cartoons of F.G. Cooper
2. The complete short stories of Rick Geary
3. "The Strange World of Mr. Mum" by Irving Phillips
4. The best magazine cartoons of Tom Cheney
5. "Crossfire" by Mark Evanier and Dan Spiegel

* Grant Morrison's Starblazers (I only have one of them)
* Toxic! (Pat Mills' '90s UK Anthology)
* Outbreak of Violets -- Alan Moore's set of cards for an MTV bash (illustrated by Jamie Hewlett, I think)
* Rubber Blanket
* The 80s Spider-Man UK comics drawn by Mike Collins and Barry Kitson in which Spider-Man comes to London and meets a villain called Thunderclap.

1. a well-chosen (by me) collection of John Stanley's funny-animal comics from the 1940s. A licensing nightmare, but it could be done.
2. a complete reprinting of Gene Ahern's Sunday-only strip "The Squirrel Cage"
3. a book of Dick Briefer's non-"Frankenstein" material
4. The eight-issue run of John Stanley's "Dunc 'n' Loo," with the two issues of "Kookie" for good measure
5. a big hardcover anthology of comics drawn by children -- the loopier, the better